What Readers Are Saying
«In his book, as in books of poems written in poetic forms and free verse, language moves through a pattern, and the basic organizing unit is the line. In tombboy, the line may be a syllable, a sign, an image, or even a dot… Readers may rightfully assume that many, even all the poems in tombboy are anti-war poems… yet it would be inaccurate to infer these concrete poems are doctrinaire, or purely political. Nor are they autobiographical. But they are personal, intuitive, original, and memorable, each with something to show…»
– Peter Mladinic, author of House Sitting, Knives on the Table and many other books
«tombboy is filled with an experimental spirit, combining fearless phrasing with satirical madness. The result is a fascinating examination of the human condition… it seems there are no limits to his masterful creativity. Each page of this book will grab your attention. tombboy deserves a prominent spot on your bookshelf.»
– Roberta Beach Jacobson, editor of Five Fleas Itchy Poetry and smols poetry journal
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Sample Poems
ghosts in the floorboardsfloorboards
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unusual noise:
ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ ᴔ
creak:
eak eak eak eak eak eak eak eak
floorboards tangle:
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don’t you dare step on the floor! because the floor is lava
dripdripdripdripdripdripdripdripdripdripdripdripdripdrip
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no one knows what a floor of lava can give birth to floorboard cross?
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o jesus is it really you who are imaginably loudly silent in the floorboard under feet
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you were hiding in my floor all the time and kissing my heels ᴓ ᴓ ᴓ ᴓ ᴓ ᴓ
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nobody knows
and the silence below does not dissipate you are nobody
an ordinary ghost from childhood dreams but no childhood
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Count how many wings “~”?
Write your answer here:
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But where have all the birds disappeared?
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About the Author
Mykyta Ryzhykh, an author from Ukraine, now lives in Tromsø, Norway. He was nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize and Touchstone Award, and received a Ukrainian presidential scholarship for young authors. In 2022, he received a Ukrainian bachelor’s degree in journalism and communications. In the same year, his Ukrainian-language collection of poems, Liber liberi, was published by Gerda Publishing House. Mykyta was also a co-founder and curator of the literary competition #безпробiлiв (#withoutspaces) for Ukrainian teenagers.
His publishing credits include many literary magazines in Ukrainian and English, including Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, QLRS, and others.
Mykyta’s two-line verse (previously published in Password journal) was used as the title of a philosophical article by Terence Rajivan Edward (University of Manchester, PhD):
Children’s town
No one to fix a toy
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